Faculty Senate

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REDBOOK & Bylaws 2025-2026

THE REDBOOK & Bylaws Committee 2025-2026

Committee Description: To advise the Faculty Senate and its committees on matters concerning The Redbook; To recommend changes in The Redbook to the Faculty Senate, including changes, which will keep The Redbook internally consistent with current administrative structures; To examine all merit, appointment, promotion and tenure documents and unit bylaws to ensure consistency with the Minimum Guidelines Documents; To study all Minimum Guidelines Documents and to make recommendations to the Faculty Senate concerning the same; To review regularly and to recommend changes to the Faculty Senate Bylaws as to their currency, internal consistency and consistency with The Redbook.

Membership: There shall be seven voting members; five elected by the Faculty Senate (at least four of whom must be faculty senators), and two appointed by the Chair of the Faculty Senate in consultation with the Executive Committee.

Terms: Members shall serve staggered three-year terms.

Elected: Voting (5)
Name Committee Term Academic Unit
Michael Cunningham 2023-2026 Arts & Sciences
Anita Moorman 2025-2028 College of Education & Human Development 
Allison Ogden 2024-2027 School of Music
Emi Ramirez 2025-2028 Kent School of Social work & Family Science
Hugh Shoff 2024-2027 School of Medicine
Appointed: Voting (2) - Replaced or reappointed each fall by the Faculty Senate Chair. 
TBA 2025-2026
TBA 2025-2026
Ex Officio: Non-voting
Provost Office Designee Cherie Dawson-Edwards Faculty Affairs
UPDATED: 7.9.2025